System and method of owner application control of electronic devices

摘要

Systems and methods of owner application control of an electronic device are provided. Owner application control information is stored on the electronic device and/or one or more remote servers. Owner application control information is consulted to determine if one or more required applications are available for execution on the electronic device. If not, one or more required applications not available are downloaded and installed. This could be in a manner transparent to the user of the electronic device. If one or more required applications are not available on the electronic device, the device can be functionally disabled in whole, or in part, until one or more required applications are available.

主权项

1. A method of application control for use on an electronic device owned by an owner, the method comprising:
storing on the electronic device owner control information used to control operation of the electronic device, wherein the owner control information includes an authorization record and an application identifier for each application allowed to be executed on the electronic device, and wherein insertion of additional owner control information onto the electronic device is restricted; receiving an operation request from an application; determining whether the requested operation is allowed to be performed by the application based upon a particular authorization record and a particular application identifier associated with the application; and allowing the application to perform the requested operation based upon whether the requested operation is determined to be allowed to be performed by the application, wherein the particular authorization record and the particular application identifier are provided by an external source through a wireless communication channel, wherein the owner control information is used to periodically determine whether excluded applications are installed on the electronic device, and wherein the electronic device becomes substantially disabled upon determining an excluded application is installed on the electronic device.